From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 4 10:52:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA23416 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 10:52:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from extractor.compass-da.com (gateway.compass-da.com [162.17.253.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA23407 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 10:52:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by extractor.compass-da.com; id AA02713; Wed, 4 Sep 96 10:52:18 PDT Received: from luminary.sanjose.compass-da.com(162.17.1.44) by gateway.compass-da.com via smap (V3.1.1) id xma002698; Wed, 4 Sep 96 10:52:02 -0700 Received: from mirage.compass-da.com (mirage [162.17.2.39]) by luminary.sanjose.compass-da.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id KAA13103; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 10:52:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by mirage.compass-da.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA19603; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 10:54:23 -0700 Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 10:54:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Garth Corral X-Sender: garthc@mirage To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Cc: Tony Harverson , schluntz@gromit.pinpt.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ep driver buggy? In-Reply-To: <199609041350.GAA12188@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > as i remember (whoa, gonna step in it for sure! ;), the 3c509 > works wonderfully if you have a decent motherboard, else power > cycle the box at reboot. the warm-boot of chessy motherboards > does not yank the isa bus reset line. > Well, I'm the original poster and the motherboard in question is a somewhat older Micronics EISA board. I've had no trouble with it running NetBSD all these years. > the 3c509B (note the "B") is a plug-n-pray model > > please sepc which 3c509 you have in your testimonials. thanks. > I have neither a 3c509 nor a 3c509B. It is a 3c579. Definitely pre-plug-n-pray. I hope I didn't "step in it" by assuming that this uses the same driver. Any experiences with this card and the ep driver. Garth.